Price you pay to play - 727

340mopar said

If I was running tech at the track when that happened and then he showed up again with a 727 he would not be running the car. I have been around NHRA along time, my dad was the tech director for Division 6 in the 60's and still active in the 70's so I grew up at the drag strip. I will tell you that car would be band from competition by the tech director until he had a trans with a special case like a 'glide. There would be no way to verifiy if he had the aluminum drum in the car. There is a reason drag racers don't use a 727 in blown high HP applications. The aluminum drum is just a band aid fix it still won't stop the sprag from failing. Sprags can only handle so much abuse then they let go. This is why they are making spragless converters for high HP applications. Look at that car, it could have very easily gone the other direction and if it had the driver would probably be in a wheel chair. All of this just so you can say you have a Mopar trans in the car and not a GM style trans. Not worth loosing your legs or live over ego.

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You couldn't ban the car from competition if it has the proper safety equipment for the ET it runs. There is no rule that says you can't have a Torqueflite in a blown application, and an aluminum front drum isn't required. If your Dad was a tech director he'd know that.

And it's not just to say you don't have a GM trans in your car. So you have a Dedenbear case 'glide, guess what, if you fill it with stock internals you have a bigger piece of crap than a stock Torqueflite bud.

Clutchflites (that's a Torqueflite with a clutch instead of a torque converter) were used behind early funny cars for years. Why you ask? Because it wasn't a wimpy, designed for 200 horsepower GM 2 speed.

Let me just say this before I get too pissed off. Just because everyone uses something, powerslide, 9" ford or whatever, doesn't mean it's the best and nothing else is suited to the task. A lot of people run smallblock Chevies too. Does that mean everything else is obsolete or inferior? Absolutely not. Because the majority of people have only average intelligence (that's how you get the average) the average person doesn't realize the superior engineering and durability of the Mopars. Including their transmissions. They just need to be treated differently than their brand X counterparts, but then we get back to that average, intelligence and monkey see, monkey do mentality thing.